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There’s plenty of food out there that folks find disgusting or off-putting, especially if it’s something alien to your culture’s cuisine.
Haggis — sheep parts stuffed into a sheep’s stomach and boiled — for one, is a dish that not many outside of Scotland can, ahem, stomach. Nor does lutefisk — stinky, aged fish jellied with lye — garner many converts outside of Scandinavian countries. And that also goes for something like the regionally popular Southeast Asian delicacy of balut, a fertilized duck egg that’s been incubated for up to 21 days and then steamed.
All those foods are pretty obviously questionable to newbies, with strange smells and alarming visuals for those not familiar with the fare. More alarming…